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Skype for Business is Retiring!
On July 31, 2021, Microsoft will be turning off Skype for Business Online. Microsoft advises that Skype users upgrade to Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams extends the capabilities of Skype for Business, bringing together chat, meetings, calling, collaboration, app...
3 Characteristics That Define the Modern Workplace
What happens when multi-ethnic, intergenerational teams are given counterintuitive and rigid tools? Simply put, they don't use them. View this infographic to learn the top 3 trends driving today's #ModernWorkplace. Let our team help you discover how your organization can benefit from Microsoft technologies.
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms
Microsoft has been a leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for 14 consecutive years. For the third year, Microsoft is positioned furthest to the right for completeness of vision and furthest up in the ability to...
Introducing Microsoft Teams
With 5 generations collaborating in the workplace, how can you use a digital workspace to empower great ideas? Watch this video to learn how you can use #MicrosoftTeams to complement your #Office365 suite and enable efficient workplace collaboration, then contact us to get started.
New Features from Microsoft Teams for 2021
Recently announced support regarding Teams
Update your Microsoft Teams Manually
Anyone want to make sure you’re running the latest version of the Teams Client? Tired of waiting for automatic update to give you the latest version? I thought so….enter at your own risk Go to Teams client, Click your picture, then about, then version. It will then...
Employee Empowerment Bears Fruit
"We need every employee to understand they can make a difference."
That's non-negotiable to Fruit of the Loom CEO Tony Pelaski. In this video, discover how Tony and his team use Microsoft Teams to create a climate for success, ensuring associates have the tools and platform in their supply chain to respond quickly. With Microsoft Teams, we can help you empower every employee at your company by bringing online meetings, modern storytelling tools, collaboration and productivity apps together -- all in one place.
A Day in the Life of a Construction Pro with Microsoft Teams
From mobility apps to Office 365 productivity tools to collaboration tools to analytics in Power BI, Microsoft Teams delivers everything you need to keep schedules and projects all in one place. Check out this infographic to learn from a day in the life of Sofia, a construction company superintendent.
Solorigate Cyber Attack | Partner Resources
Most clients I’ve been talking to are making security a priority for 2021. With everything that happen in 2020 with the workforce and culture for most organizations moving remotely and the quick ingestion of systems and solutions to support that move security risks...
A Day in the Life – Compliance
Meet Diego, a Compliance Officer who works closely with his company's IT team to ensure employees abide by internal policies and regulations set by regulatory bodies. Check out this infographic to see how Diego uses productivity and collaboration tools in Teams...
5 Ways the Pandemic is Changing Cybersecurity Long-Term
Security has proven to be the foundation for digital empathy in a remote workforce during the pandemic. When billions of people formed the largest remote workforce in history, overnight, teams learned much more than how to scale Virtual Private Networks. Companies...
Taking internal communication to the next level with Microsoft Teams
Communication among team members and between different teams, especially when they're in different locations, can be a huge challenge--but it doesn't have to be an obstacle to collaboration and teamwork. Watch this video to discover why Red Lion Hotels (RLH) trusted Microsoft Teams to integrate all its corporate needs into one internal communications tool. Then contact us to find out how we can do the same for your organization!
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | November 2020
Microsoft put out a blog that introduces all the new features in Teams! Check it out: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-november-2020/ba-p/1945889 New Features: Meetings Calling Devices Chat &...
Happy Birthday Azure Synapse Analytics!
November 4th was the 1-year anniversary of Azure Synapse Analytics (ASA). We are very excited about what this first year has brought in terms of features, functionalities, and the possibilities it offers our clients for the future. In the spirit of celebration, we...
Covenant Technology Partners Webinar: Using Retail Analytics to Deliver Insights
Learn how to address common data integration and analytics challenges facing the retail industry, and discover how modern, cloud-based data architectures can help integrate your data at scale and transform your business.
Artificial Intelligence & Manufacturing Webinar
Learn how AI & Manufacturing can transform your organization!
Blogs
Highlights from Dynamics 365, Release Wave 1
Highlights from Dynamics 365, Release Wave 1 Dynamics 365 Marketing continues to invest in collaboration by enabling collaborative content creation with Microsoft Teams. Marketers can use content fragments and themes to improve authoring efficiency. Investments in...
Power BI January Updates released by Microsoft
Optimize your Processes and Gain Deep Insights with Process Mining Process mining, provides direct data insights across an organization’s daily business processes, helping identify inefficiencies to improve how they work. Now with the preview of process mining in...
Covenant Welcomes New Partners
The Partners of Covenant Technology Partners are thrilled to announce that Doug Neff and David Friedrichs have joined the partnership as of January first. Both Doug and David are proven leaders who have been instrumental in the growth and success Covenant has...
Cloud Computing Conceptions Clarity
Cloud computing has become a challenge for business and IT alike. How an IT application can be developed and deployed has more choices than ever before. Cloud software and service providers always report Cloud computing costs less than On-Premises computing....
CRM Latest and Greatest Updates December 2021
During our webinar Pamela Beste went over the latest and greatest features in Dynamics CRM! Items that were covered: Sales Accelerator Microsoft Teams and Dynamics 365 CE Integration Voice for Customer Service And more! If you have any questions please contact...
Power BI Jumpstart
Our Power BI Jumpstart is an end-to-end engagement to accelerate your organization’s Power BI implementation. There is no one-size-fits-all approach with Power BI and, while there are several solutions we typically suggest, it is entirely based on your...
Microsoft Ignite Recap
Microsoft Ignite features four main themes: empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid work, building a hyperconnected business, innovating anywhere from multi-cloud to edge, and protecting everything with end-to-end security. Keep reading to learn more about...
Covenant’s Client Appreciation Event
Covenant held a client appreciation event at Novellus on Main Street where we had lively conversation, tasty food, and an enriching mixology class with our wonderful clients! We will be hosting another one early in 2022 and hope to see you there!...
What’s New in Microsoft Teams for October 2021
October 8, 2021 Reply to a message in chat You can now reply to a specific message in chat! Hover over the message you want to reply to and select More options Microsoft Teams more options icon > Reply. A preview of the message you’re replying to will show up in...
Azure App Service
Have you been looking for a fully-managed, secure platform for your web apps? Azure App Service is designed to help you build, deploy, and scale your web apps and APIs on your terms. Work with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python or php, in containers or...
New Pricing Model for Microsoft 365
There have been changes made to commercial pricing for Microsoft 365—the first substantive pricing update since Office 365 launched a decade ago. This updated pricing reflects the increased value delivered to customers over the past 10 years. Let’s take a look at...
6 Integral Parts of Digital Transformation
In today’s chaotic business landscape, the right technology can level the playing field between businesses of all sizes. Adopting a solution that facilitates internal communication and collaboration empowers smaller businesses to compete with industry leaders. With...
Maximizing the Value of your Systems
Are you capturing all the value you can from your cloud-based application investments? Is the rapid change of pace and enhancements challenging your ability to know what you own? In the past, we developed a business plan for an application generally focusing on one...
Power BI 2021 MBAS Recap
The pace of innovation around Power BI never seems too slow. At Microsoft’s recently concluded Business Application Summit, the Power BI team shared another exciting slate of new and planned features for the industry leading analytics platform. Highlighting just a...
Top 12 Reasons to Move to Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement in the Cloud
Top 12 Reasons to Move to Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement in the Cloud: Will be running the latest and greatest from Microsoft with seamless upgrades as part of bi-yearly release waves. Easily support a synched sandbox and production environment without the...
14 Reasons to NOT stay on an older version of CRM
Reasons to NOT stay on an older version of CRM: More than likely the version has reached end of life and is no longer supported by Microsoft. Underlying Database and Operating system support will also fall out of support Unsupported software is a security...
Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary
Reporting Power Automate for Power BI Small multiples: padding controls and combo chart support New and improved shapes Invert axis and continuous axis sorting Modeling DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services CROSSFILTER supports...
Creating a Data-Driven Culture using Power BI
Enable everyone across your organization to make confident decisions using real-time analytics. Self-Service Analytics at Enterprise Scale Reduce the added cost, complexity, and security risks of multiple solutions with an analytics platform that scales the entire...
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